The city developed rapidly, which led to its first expansion: the Burg district expanded to the west in 1224, a town was established across the river in 1254, and in 1280 development began near Place Python.

* Giebichenstein Castle, first mentioned in 961, in the north of the city centre on a hill above the Saale river, with a museum in the upper castle and the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in the lower castle.

In 1280 the counts moved their court from Schloss Burg on the Wupper river to the town of Düsseldorf.

A few miles further down, Schloss Burg is located on a hill overlooking the river.

On December 25, 1907 he founded the Order of the New Templars ( Ordo Novi Templi, or ONT ), a mystical association with its headquarters at Burg Werfenstein, a castle in Upper Austria overlooking the river Danube.

The Vils river has a tight bend where the Burg is located.

Above the town stand the ruins of Burg Rheinfels, one of the castles for which the Middle Rhine is famous, and across the river lies the sister town of Sankt Goarshausen with its own castles, Katz and Maus (“ Cat ” and “ Mouse ”).

The Hörder Burg ( Hörde castle ) is located in the east of the town, close to the river Emscher.

Burg Blankenstein is a castle located on the south side of the river Ruhr in Hattingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Within the town's municipal area lie the ruins of three castles, the Felsburg, the Altenburg in the constituent community of the same name, and the Burg Heiligenberg above the constituent community of Gensungen on the river Eder's opposite bank.

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).

They took their name from their ancestral home, the Burg Hohenzollern castle near Hechingen.

The revolts ceased when King Alfonso V of Aragon nominated the town as a Royal Burg, directly ruled by the King and free from feudal taxation, in the period in which it was maybe the most populous city of Sardinia.

The declaration ceremony begins with the hymn Jumala ompi linnamme ( Martin Luther's Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ) and continues with the Declaration of Christmas Peace read from a parchment roll in Finnish and Swedish.

Even though the name Riesenburg derives from the area having been called " Reisen " or " Resia " before the castle ( Burg, zamek ) had been built, the name was attributed to a giant ( Riese in German, olbrzym in Polish ), and the coat of arms, first recorded in 1405, thus depicts a giant and a castle.

In 1938, after a triumphant entry into Austria, Adolf Hitler spoke to the Austrian people from the balcony of the Neue Burg, a part of the Hofburg at the Heldenplatz.

Borough derives from the Old English word burh ( cognate with German Burg, meaning castle ), meaning a fortified and walled enclosure containing several households — anything from a large stockade to a fortified town.

The name of the city is either derived from the Bituriges, the name of the original inhabitants, or from the Germanic Burg ( French: Bourg.

The spelling of the city's name was changed to Catlettsburg from the previous spelling of Catlett's Burg in approximately 1890, as the United States Post Office sought to improve postage delivery service by simplifying operations with the combined name.

Wilbert Abernathy can recall seeing the stump of this large tree several years later when the Abernathy family moved to the Grant farm from Burg about 1910 or 1911.

• Burg is located somewhere between Zalma and Gipsy on Supplemental Route E. It is said that the Pioneer Cooperage Company operated a lumber mill here from about 1906 to 1911, after which the company moved to Coldwater in Wayne County when the timber played out.

Federal forces marched south from Knoxville and Sevierville to drive out Thomas ' men, who had built a small fort on Burg Hill.

Other suggestions include the Burg of David, from the old pre-Norman-Conquest British Gaelic for David, being Deu, similar to the Welsh form, Dai.

The castle took its name from the colour of the bricks ( rot means " red ", Burg " castle ").

In 1292 Duke Otto II the Strict ( 1277 – 1330 ), a Welf who ruled the Principality of Lüneburg from 1277 to 1330 left Altencelle, where there had been a defences in the form of a circular rampart ( the Ringwall von Burg ) since the 10th century, and founded a rectangular settlement by the existing castle ( Burg ) to the northwest.

* Steuerwald Castle ( Burg Steuerwald ) in the north of the city, about 3 km from the Market Place, was built 1310 – 1313.

* Marienburg Castle ( Burg Marienburg ) is in the southeast of Hildesheim, about 6 km from the Market Place.

Its name is derived from German frei ( free ) and Burg ( fort ).

The Archbishop Richard of Trier, Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, and Louis V, Elector Palatine decided to move against him, and having obtained help from the Swabian League, marched on Burg Nanstein.

Windeck Castle ( Burg Windeck ) lies in the municipality ’ s north, south of the railway station.

In its efforts to raise the Windeck from its ruins, the municipality is tirelessly and enthusiastically supported by the club Heimatmuseum Burg Windeck e. V .. Volunteer helpers take care of this still considerable property.

Parts of the municipality are Hannersdorf, Burg, and Woppendorf.

The original black marble sarcophagus collapsed at Burg Hohenzollern — the current one is a copper copy.

Martin Luther is notable not only as a reformer, but as the author of many hymns including Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ( A Mighty Fortress Is Our God ), which is sung today even by Catholics, and Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ ( Praise be to You, Jesus Christ ) for Christmas.

The derivation of the name “ Limburg ” is not quite clear and may well hearken back to a castle built here ( Burg means “ castle ” in German ).

In High German, Burg means fortified settlement or fortified refuge ; and is a widespread component of place names.

One archeological site, the Sumpf a late Bronze Age lake shore settlement, is included, as are three museums ; the Burg ( Castle museum ), Kunsthaus ( Art museum ) and Museum für Urgeschichte ( Museum for ancient history ).

The highest point, near Schrum in the Geestland, is 78 meters above sea level and the lowest point, near Burg, is 0. 5 meters below sea level.

The largest community on Fehmarn is Burg, with 6, 000 inhabitants.

In Burg there is a large aquarium with 40 fish tanks.

Peterstown ( also known as " The Burg ") is a middle / working-class neighborhood in the southeastern part of the city.

* Burg Thurant: Above the town of Alken is Thurant castle, built in the 13th century.

According to tradition, the castle ( Burg ) got its name when its founder first laid eyes on the hill upon which the castle now sits ; enchanted by the site, he is supposed to have exclaimed, " Warte, Berg -- du sollst mir eine Burg tragen!

It is a German play on words for mountain ( Berg ) and fortress ( Burg ).

* October 30 – Ernst Marboe is announced as the new administrator of the Vienna State Opera and Burg Theater, replacing Egon Hilbert.

On a crest near Alt-Ems the Burg Neu-Ems ( also " Schloss Glopper ") is located, built in 1343.

Burg Neu-Ems is still intact today and in the private property of the Waldburg-Zeil family, descendants of the counts of Hohenems.